Name my latest Prussian Tank

[Plynkes]

Not quite true, my Nordic friend...

[Dr. The Viking]

A graph worthy of Erick Honnecker! 

Danes invented most of latin but found it to cumbersome for colloquial talk, so had to do some other languages that facilitated yelling at oarsmen better.

[Plynkes]

Information presented in pie-chart format is irrefutable.

You cannot deny the pie! 

[carlos marighela]

I'd go for Egon myself. It has a certain impish charm that reminds one of the last leader of East Germany ( who says progress is necessarily a good thing). Naturally I'm biased. I'm co-president of 'The Friends of Egon Krenz', a small group devoted to the memory of Germany's most illustrious leader and the consumption of porter and select ales.

[Ettrick]

Der eyrenweiler

Or simpler still:  Der eirad

[The_Beast]

Whereas a tank in a Victorian setting isn't an anachronism at all. 

It would seem accuracy in linguistics is as illusive... ;->=

That said, there's no need to argue; English steals from EVERYBODY. If there were an L'académie Anglaise, it would be spelled just like that, and would consist of folks sitting around cataloging changes that can't be stopped.

My favorite example is stealing the same word twice from French, just waiting long enough for the French to change the pronounciation...

Speaking of French, how about calling it 'La Bête Noire' , as the crews love hearing it on the lips of the French opposition?

Oh, that would be me not giving up again...

Doug

[Doomsdave]

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

-James Nicoll

[Red Orc]

 

Another way of approaching the whole problem of names presents itself: how about ,,Brunhilde'' in reference to the (generally fairly busty) heroine of The Ring Cycle?

[The_Beast]

Another way of approaching the whole problem of names presents itself: how about ,,Brunhilde'' in reference to the (generally fairly busty) heroine of The Ring Cycle?

I figured we would hold that in reserve for a twin-hulled model. 

Doug

[Totleben]

Panzerzankwagen VI also known as the Königsberger

[Totleben]

Are those pictures of cooked bull's bollocks?

It is just minced meat.

[The_Beast]

Yuk! Minced meat is not very appealing.

Now tucking into some bovine nuts is a different matter altogether.

In the US, sometimes referred to as Rocky Mountain Oysters. Never tried them, but my aged mother informs me they're not bad.

What's German for Bollock? Remember, it's a single.

Doug